Alonzo T Jones

Selected Writings of Alonzo T. Jones, Vol. 1 of 4 Alonzo T Jones

This volume 1 of 4 contains some ten books, eleven sermons/lectures, and five pamphlets-over 800,000 words. There are nearly 7,000,000 recorded words of A. T. Jones available to us. In choosing the material for the planned four volumes, consideration was given to the tendency of placing one's most important material in the most permanent form-books and pamphlets. Thus, the four volumes will contain largely books and pamphlets, plus all of the recorded General Conference sermons, and some selected journal articles. A few booklets and pamphlets that are duplicated in the retained publications are not included. The four "Empire Series" books, - The Empires of the Bible, The Great Empires of Prophecy, Ecclesiastical Empire, and The Great Nations of Today-begin at the Tower of Babel, and cover the history of the world. Jones, Alonzo Trevier (1850-1923) -. Editor, author, preacher. Jones became an SDA in 1874 while in the Army at Fort Walla Walla. He soon became involved in evangelism in the Northwest. He was called in 1885 to assist with periodical editorial work at the Pacific Press, where Ellet J. Waggoner was also working as editor. Jones' knowledge of history enabled him quickly to become the church's expert on the fulfillment of prophecy in the realm of religious liberty. With Waggoner, he pushed the frontiers of understanding the righteousness of Christ in relation to liberty and salvation. May of 1888 Senator Blair brought a national Sunday bill to the U. S. Senate, with Jones appearing later that year before a Senate committee to oppose that legislation on behalf of the church, the first of many testimonies he would give in those settings. The 1888 General Conference Session brought to a head the differences between some leaders and Jones and Waggoner. The issues were prophecy and salvation. Ellen White endorsed the urgency of the crisis in relation to religious liberty and prophecy highlighted by Jones. She later would call the salvation message Jones and Waggoner were presenting "most precious" and prophesied against those who called them "fanatics, extremists, and enthusiasts" (1888 1336.2 & 1341.2). Next to Ellen White, Jones is undoubtedly the most prolific writer the SDA denomination has ever had. Over the years, he did editorial work for a number of our publications. In 1897 he became editor of the Review and Herald for a few years. Ellen White repeatedly, at least through 1899, spoke of Jones as a messenger of God with a special work to do (1888 1455.2), and warned of the "fatal delusion" of rejecting the message, especially if either Waggoner or Jones were to lose their way (1888 1455.2). As the church entered into the period when it would "remain here in this world because of insubordination many more years" (Lt 184, 1901), Jones departed from church membership, but remained active in publishing the last 20 years of his life, and kept the Sabbath until his death in 1923. - Adapted from the Adventist Pioneer LibraryPublications Included In Vol 1.1888 The Abiding Sabbath & The Lord's Day1889 Kansas Camp-meeting Sermons 1889 National Reform is Church and State1889 The National Sunday Law1889 Religion and the Public Schools1889 Rev. W. F. Crafts Against the Editors of the American Sentinel1889 Tremont Temple Lectures1889 Views of National Reform, Series One1890 Arguments on the Breckinridge Sunday Bill1890 Bible Questions and Answers Concerning Man1890 The Churches and the Public Treasury1890 The Edmunds Resolution1890 An Exposition of Matthew Twenty-Four on the Second Coming of Christ1890 The Immortality of the Soul, Is it a Scriptural Doctrine?1891 General Conference Daily Bulletin, Vol. 41891The Two Republics, or Rome and the United States of America1892 "Due Process of Law" and The Divine Right of Dissent1892 The Limits of Civil Authority